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This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued a manuscript culture for around two millennia and had a profound impact on traditions of knowledge and culture. After an introductory essay addressing theoretical and historical issues of text transmission in manuscripts and in India#146;s remarkably strong oral memory culture, it contains twelve contributions dealing with South Indian manuscript collections in India and Europe (mainly of Vedic and Sanskrit texts) and with problems related to the scripts, the dating of manuscripts and India's literary and intellectual history.
| Preface | p. ix |
| List of Contributors | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in "India": Contours and Parameters | p. 1 |
| On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background | p. 55 |
| A Cultural Encounter in the Early 18th Century: The Collection of South Indian Manuscripts by the French Jesuit Fathers of the Carnatic Mission | p. 69 |
| The South Indian Drama Manuscripts | p. 81 |
| The Jaiminiya Samaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India | p. 99 |
| Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yamalastakatantra | p. 119 |
| From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank: A Note on the 'Bhasa-Project' | p. 139 |
| The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu | p. 157 |
| Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons | p. 173 |
| Varieties of Grantha Script: The Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts | p. 187 |
| From my Grandfathers Chest of Palmleaf Books | p. 207 |
| Ramasubrahmanya's Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922 | p. 235 |
| The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India's Early Modern Period | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 289 |
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ISBN: 9789004219007
ISBN-10: 9004219005
Series: Brill's Indological Library
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 29th June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 16.0
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.658
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